Posted August 4, 2008 6:00 AM
Good morning.
Here are a few Washington events of note for Monday, August 4.
President Bush leaves for South Korea and is making a stop at the Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska to talk to the troops there.
The Young America's Foundation is hosting its 30th annual National Conservative Student Conference.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is releasing its study on "Kids Meals: Obesity on the Menu," a report on its investigation into the nutritional quality of children's meals at top chain restaurants.
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Comments
RIP A. Solzhenitsn, a writer who stands with Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.
I always had a chuckle when some brite bulb would claim RR was most responsible for the defeat of the USSR in the cold war.
I credit A.S. as he proved the pen is indeed mightier than the sword.
Posted by: C.Morris | August 4, 2008 8:39 AM
Solzhenitsyn was anti democratic (a monarchist), a fervant champion of established State Religion (Russian Orthadoxy) a tiresome Slavophile ideologue and not nearly as great a writer as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky Chekhov and others.
Yes he was an enemy of the Soviet state, but not an enemy of authoritarianism.
Posted by: MJ | August 4, 2008 9:06 PM